Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolution, Agriculture, and Medicine
May 31–June 2 in Snowbird, Utah
Indirect genetic effects (IGE) are genetic effects of an individual on the trait values of other individuals in the same species. These effects are also known as social genetic effects and associative genetic effects. Although the concept first arose in the agricultural genetics literature in the 1960s, it did not receive much attention outside that community until the late 1990s. Since then, there has been a great deal of development of the theoretical literature, which has emphasized that IGE provides a unifying framework for traditional quantitative genetics, maternal and paternal genetic effects, inclusive fitness, and multilevel selection.
Incoming AGA President Kimberly Hughes’ symposium will bring together empiricists, statisticians, and theoreticians using this concept to investigate both applied and basic research questions. Other speakers will focus on model organisms, agricultural systems, and natural populations of non-model species.
Learn more about the 2020 AGA President's Symposium
The AGA grants EECG Research Awards to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication.
The 2020 EECG application deadline will be Friday, December 13, 2019. Application materials will be available in mid-October.
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And check out our previous President's Symposia issues, freely available online:
The 2020 EECG application deadline will be Friday, December 13, 2019. Application materials will be available in mid-October.
The Stephen J. O'Brien Award for the best student paper published in AGA's Journal of Heredity includes a cash prize of $2,000.
Eight students/postdocs receive award funding for research projects
8 courses and workshops receive funding
Best student-authored article by William J. Gammerdinger
Seven students/postdocs receive award funding for research projects
Best student-authored article by Frances Clark
4 courses and workshops receive funding
Listen to our latest blog post, an audio story about Dr. Piotr ?ukasik et al.’s research on cicada mitochondrial genomes and cicadas’ symbionts!
Learn about the fascinating world of cactus-loving Drosophila species, which was the topic of Journal of Heredity's special issue in January!
Check out our new blog—the first post is in celebration of Darwin Day.
Hot off the press!
And all three articles by these authors in JHered 109-6 are freely available for the next 3 weeks!
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Read the JHered article for free at https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy019
photo by Dave Jenike, Cincinnati Zoo
Read the JHered article by Gaubert et al. for free: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx097
This collection arose from an AGA-sponsored workshop held at Arizona State University. Melissa Wilson Sayres, Guest Editor.
Read the JHered article by Wilcox, Motomura, Matsunuma, and Bowen here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx056
Bill Murphy, our EIC, is one of the authors of this fascinating article in Science Advances. Also an author on the snow leopard article that features on our most recent cover. Interested in wildlife hybridization studies? JHered has heaps! https://academic.oup.com/jhered/search-results…
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Mark Kirkpatrick, the 2015 AGA Distinguished Key Lecturer, has coauthored the new edition of Evolution. This is one of the many textbooks and other academic titles available at a discount to AGA members. Join today!
Call for Papers for Journal of Heredity!
1. Next Generation Phylogeography & Phylogenomics
2. Genome Mapping and Genome Evolution in Non-Model Organism
3. Bioinformatics
FREE from Journal of Heredity: DiBattista et al. 2016 found discordance between genetic divergence and color-based taxonomy in the pygmy angelfish Centropyge flavissima complex. In a Letter in the current JHered issue, Delrieu-Trottin et al. offer another take on the number of distinct species in this complex. In response, DiBattista et al. argue their position on the 'devilish taxonomy' of these angels.
Read the JHered article by Krysko et al. FOR FREE https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esw086
We are very pleased that OUP has completely modernized our Journal of Heredity website. However, there are inevitably a few glitches - in our case, some articles did not come across from the old website, particularly from 2014 and 2015. If you are searching for an article that has disappeared, please contact Anjanette Baker, Managing Editor, agajoh(at)oregonstate.edu, and I will send you the PDF.
This issue includes research and review articles from President Katie Peichel's 2015 AGA Symposium, 'Chromosome Evolution: Molecular Mechanisms & Evolutionary Consequences'
Online news outlet Phys.org highlights our Invited Review by Cammen et al. Read it for free: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/107/6/481/2622897/Genomic-Methods-Take-the-Plunge-Recent-Advances-in
On this sesquicentennial anniversary of the publication of Mendel's seminal work, our Council member (and pea geneticist) Norm Weeden examines the veracity of his data in this Perspective. FREE ONLINE ACCESS
A new JHered study has found European colonisation in New Zealand is to blame for a decline in kÄkÄpÅ numbers.
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photo credit Andrew Digby, NZ Dept of Conservation
Dr Kimberly R Andrews and Dr Floyd A Reed (USA), Prof Xuhua Xia (Canada) and Dr Shu-Jin Luo (China) have recently joined our Editorial Board.
Latest issue of the Journal now online, including our latest Genome Consortium white paper
Boldly visualized by Brian Bowen with an Orlog metaphor, wherein the actions of the past and present influence future outcomes. FREE online
OPEN ACCESS Perspective article on black-footed ferret cloning by our AE and AGA Council member Oliver Ryder and others.
Read the Special Issue now! Freely available at http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/S1.toc
For the first time, The Australian white whale Migaloo has been seen in NZ waters. Migaloo has a tyrosinase gene mutation, as described in Journal of Heredity here: http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/103/1/130.short
This article is freely available to read and download.
Further debate from experts on wolves in Southeastern Alaska and Mexico. TODAY in Journal of Heredity
Why are previously isolated little blue penguin colonies now mixing it up?
In this issue: Problems and Cautions With Sequence Mismatch Analysis and Bayesian Skyline Plots to Infer Historical Demography. Invited Review from Stewart Grant. Coupling population history with climate change is essential for constructing evolutionary and biogeographic scenarios that illuminate the mechanisms shaping species’ diversity.
But molecular clocks calibrated with phylogenetic divergences can overestimate the timings of population-level events. Overestimates disconnect historical population reconstructions from climatic history and confound our understanding of the factors influencing genetic variability.
The newly published article by international authors including our Review Editor, Steve O'Brien, is freely available to read and download from Journal of Heredity.
The 2020 AGA President's Symposium will be about Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolution, Agriculture, and Medicine. It will be held on May 31–June 2 in Snowbird, Utah.
Announcing the newly elected 2019 AGA President and Council:
President: Kim Hughes
Council: Mike Schwartz, Carol Lee, Gina Baucom
A total of 105 ballots were cast from a membership of 435 (24%). Thank you to all who ran and all who voted!
The 12th conservation genetics workshop for South American students, 'New challenges in the Anthropocene'. AGA has sponsored students for all 12!
The mission of the American Genetic Association is to encourage the study of comparative genetics and genomics, and to promote the application of genetic and genomic methods to the documentation, conservation, and management of organismal diversity. We are committed to accomplishing this mission together with the most inclusive group of members and contributors possible, unrestricted by race, gender, sexuality, religion, political affiliation, or background. We have worked and will continue to work to broaden participation in this field to reflect the diversity of our broader community. We adamantly oppose any forms of discrimination, and we enthusiastically support the dissemination of peer-reviewed scientific research results to other scientists and the public at large. If any of our members have ideas they would like to share on how we can further achieve this mission, without the influence of politics, we welcome them to do so by contacting your representatives in our society-- the officers and council members: http://www.theaga.org/council.htm
A great interview with Journal of Heredity Associate Editor Taras Oleksyk on the training on conservation geneticists at the annual ConGen workshops.
AGA members - Get 20% off all genetics & genomics titles in OUP's catalog. Visit the Genetics gateway page (click on Learn More...) and use the code 29300 at checkout.
July 26 to 31, 2015: 8th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution
FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Pop Quiz: what creatures make up more than 70% of the approximately 1.9 million described species on earth and have long served as model organisms in many areas of biology? If you guessed invertebrates, you’re right!
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We are moving to direct member management through the AGA website, instead of by Journal of Heredity’s publisher, Oxford University Press. Going forward, we hope to be able to offer a much more interactive platform and faster, more personal communication with our members.
Information on how to become a member for 2020 will be available in early November.
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